run-level

 

Glossary

The system state determined at boot whic

h de￿nes, among other things,

 

multi- or single-user status.

 

 

SAM

System Administration Manager. A subsystem of HP-UX that helps y ou to do a wide range of system administration tasks in teractively.

script

A ￿le that contains commands that a shell can in terpret and run.

SCSI

Small Computer System In terface.

server

A computer program that pro vides ￿le access, login access, ￿le transfer, printing and other services across a net work. Sometimes, but not alwa ys, a server consists of a dedicated computer.

shell

An HP-UX command in terpreter (Bourne, Korn, Key, Posix or C), providing a working environment interface for the user. The shell tak es command input from the k eyboard and interprets it for the operating system.

See Using HP-UX or Shells: User's Guide for information on the characteristics of the v arious shells a vailable with HP-UX.

shell script

A ￿le that contains commands that a shell can in terpret and run. Also \shell program."

shut down

To take the system from m ulti-user state to a state in whic h no processes are running, using the shutdown command.

single-user state

The state of a computer where there is little or no process activit y and no users logged in. The system is only accessible to the curren t system administrator (root). This mode is brough t about by execution of shutdown(1). Also called single-user mode .

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